Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene Exterior view of the entrance of Fa-Hien Lena cave in Sri Lanka, where archaeological evidence suggests ...

Key Takeaways Fa-Hien was a Chinese Buddhist monk who came to India to find and collect Buddhist scriptures. He visited India ...

Archaeological excavations deep within the rainforests of Sri Lanka have unearthed the earliest evidence for hunting with bows and arrows outside Africa. At Fa-Hien Lena, a cave in the heart of Sri ...

Researchers have unveiled new evidence showing that early humans living in Sri Lanka around 48,000 years ago crafted hunting tools from animal bones. Beads, awls used to make clothing or nets, and ...

The gray tufted langur was a favorite target for the early humans of Fa Hien Cave in Sri Lanka. USO / iStock Early humans were capable of hunting small mammals like monkeys and squirrels for food, a ...

Delhi's official circles are buzzing with news that the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is planning a three-month ‘road trip’ to China. Dr Rakesh Tewari's pet project is ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Sri Lanka’s western rainforests used a quartz-containing “flexible toolkit” to hunt small mammals, new research shows. The researchers discovered South Asia’s oldest ...

Fa-Hien Lena (Cave) or Pahiyangala as it is also known, is a prehistoric cave associated with the Chinese priest Fa-Hien who is believed to have stayed there in the 5 th century AD. The cave is ...